Category: Meditations

Gaming / Larian Studios / Meditations / Spam Spam Spam Humbug / Ultima

April 22, 2016

Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 8 – Virtues and Anti-Virtues, Sheep and Goats

Ultima doesn’t adequately represent all of the opposition that exists to each Virtue. Not that it handles anti-virtue badly…it just handles it incompletely.

Meditations / Spam Spam Spam Humbug / Ultima

April 8, 2016

Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 7 – Virtue and Pharisees and Laws, Oh My!

In which we take a look at the origins of the Eight Virtues of Ultima lore, and discuss the intersection of virtue and law.

Meditations / Spam Spam Spam Humbug / Ultima

March 31, 2016

Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 6 – Love, Compassion, and Mercy

The Ultima series depicts love in a very philosophically interesting way, one which is very much in line with real-world ideals of mercy.

Meditations / Spam Spam Spam Humbug

March 24, 2016

Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 5 – It’s Oddly Fitting to Discuss Violence During Holy Week

In which we wrap up the discussion with Paul and look at violence in a real-world context.

Gaming / Meditations / Spam Spam Spam Humbug / Ultima

March 17, 2016

Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 4 – Gameplay, Violence, and VR

What starts as a discussion about story and gameplay mechanics morphs into discussion of the depiction of violence in video games, and how violence might end up being depicted in VR.